Charles Dance: Game of Thrones actor on his new role as WWI general Sir Ian Hamilton in Deadline Gallipoli

The towering figure of Charles Dance is not easy to imagine skipping across the boards as Prince Charming in Sleeping Beauty as he once did at the Theatre Royal, Windsor. Whether playing fictional roles such as the ruthless overlord Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones or historical parts such as the icy British Commander Alastair Denniston in the Oscar-winning The Imitation Game, he is invariably cast as cruel, intimidating characters with an abundance of power but an absence of feeling.

Christmas audiences enjoyed some classic Dance in the BBC’s stylish Agatha Christie drama And Then There Were None, where he played Justice Lawrence Wargrave, a remorseless hanging judge. And next weekend, over three hours on UKTV’s Drama channel, Dance will play another patrician figure, Sir Ian Hamilton, the British First World War general who oversaw the calamitous Gallipoli landings.

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